I love e-Sword, especially for the commentaries. I've got Henry, Clarke, Calvin, Gill, K&D, Wesley (sparse), Lightfoot, Spurgeon's Treasury of David and a bunch of Bible dictionaries. Since I don't own commentaries on every book of the Bible these are invaluable and are so much quicker than using each one separately from a web site and having to hunt to each passage.

Be sure to go the the NET's web site to get that for free plus there's ISV and ESV for free in addition to the ubiquitous KJV and many others for cost.

I would rather buy books than Bible software. If I was doing heavy duty comparisons, word counts, original language stuff or have a need for resources that aren't available etc. then something more robust would be necessary.

e-sword really is the creme of the crop (for free that is)as for paid stuff I'm overly impressed with logos but it aint cheap (I got it on discount through my school tho)and it now has mac capabilities - but not as many as the windows version

for my mac I use bibledesktop http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/which works fantastic and meets my commentary/devotional/multiple language needsit also has free ESV and NET bibles which are the two I use the most (apart from the other language stuff)

good deal?

nothing good for my iphone yet tho... (free that is)

_________________"sometimes a little more than you think you want is still a little less than you actually need""brilliance seems too often masked by stupid people"

I used e-sword and still do. My dad installed Logos and I like it really well. However he has so many volumes on it that it takes a few minutes to start up. So if I want to do a really fast verse look up I almost always use e-sword. If I need commentaries or know that I will be reading for more than a minute or two then I will always use Logos. For being a free program e-sword is tops.

I opted for the PC Study Bible, One reason was that it some books in their library that looked interesting and should (hopefully) aide in my study. I'm a little concerned that I'll have too much info at my fingertips and fail to write anything. The second reason what was that I was able to swing a good deal for the product.

I'll be loading it on my computer shortly and giving it a test drive. If I have the opportunity, I may load it on my work computer, so during those slow periods at work, I can do something constructive.

Installing it was a painful process, not because PCSB is bad, but because I'm using vmware and my disk image (which was not set to autogrow) was too small for the installation. I needed to create a new disk image. I've only now finished that and start installing PCSB.

Nothing seems easy in my life, there's the right way and then there's my way which is usually called the wrong way